Microsoft release new XAML Controls Gallery app to help developers implement Fluent Design

Microsoft is hoping developers will be updating their UWP apps en masse to support their new Fluent Design language, and to help them along Microsoft has published an app in the store that demonstrates all the controls available. “XAML Controls Gallery” demonstrates all of the controls available in Fluent Design System and XAML. It’s the interactive companion to the Fluent Design System web site which can be seen here. According to Microsoft, the new Microsoft Fluent Design System will deliver “intuitive, harmonious, responsive and inclusive cross-device experiences and interactions” for…

Convert Hex Color Code to Brush/SolidColorBrush in XAML App

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To set the background color of an object in .NET XAML, you will need to set the Brush object type. To create a Brush object from a hexadecimal color code, use the following. //input ex: #dcdcdc public static Windows.UI.Xaml.Media.SolidColorBrush GetColorFromHex(string hexaColor) { return new Windows.UI.Xaml.Media.SolidColorBrush( Windows.UI.Color.FromArgb( 255, Convert.ToByte(hexaColor.Substring(1, 2), 16), Convert.ToByte(hexaColor.Substring(3, 2), 16), Convert.ToByte(hexaColor.Substring(5, 2), 16) ) ); } Happy coding!

Uno Platform now lets you develop for macOS, Windows, and more using the same code

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Uno Platform announced today that it now supports macOS as a target platform. This new support means that developers can use a single code base to create apps on Windows, iOS, Android, the web, and macOS. According to Uno Platform, this makes it the first and only cross-platform solution to allow the same codebase to run on all these platforms. Uno Platform allows developers to use C# and XAML code to create native apps on several platforms. Rather than running through Electron or emulation, apps that utilize Uno Platform can…

Adapting to Enterprise and B2E Xamarin Forms App Development

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Enterprise or Business to Employee (B2E) mobile apps can be quite different from their B2C counterparts. B2C apps, tend to focus on a small number of screens or feed for their main usage, and additional screens are not as frequently used, but there to serve ancillary functionality as needed. B2E apps, are focused on function, normally recording or accessing data for their day to day job. Many of them are replacing hand written recordings, for digital records, that are automatically synchronized to the main database. The fact that these users…